Damage control
 

I have a Wellsophyilla brain coral that has a small pce of exposed skeleton. Is there anything I can do to try to encourage repair. and stop brown jelly?

My brain coral was experiencing the same thing recently (Lobo sp.). I had some advice to try moving it to a new location within the tank, or closer to the light. I moved it to a new location, also in the sand not upwards to reduce number of variables. And, after a week or so, its looking pretty happy. The other advice I was given was to check KH, Mg and Ca. My KH was on the low side so I brought that up too. Good luck!

Keep it up from that sand in an area where the damaged tissue will have good water flow all around and it will heal in time. I've run a trachyphyllia and lobophyllia through a saw on more than one occasion and to get them to heal without any problems I always make sure the cut pieces have good water flow. If the damaged tissue is smothered it will be more susceptible to infection.

A little bit of target feeding with some small meaty food will also help provide it with more energy for healing.

If it has a brown jelly infection already, remove the coral to a bucket of aquarium water and blast off the infected area with a turkey baster then return the coral back to your tank. That usually works but if it continues to spread cut the infected area off with a saw just above the receding tissue.

I got home tonight, turned on the lights to find some pods and my Pep shrimp dining on the effected area. Is this get scavenging or would they be part of the problem?

Pods, worms and other little bugs wont bother a healthy damaged coral. Either the peppermint shrimp are causing the problem or the coral is in bad shape.

What happened to the coral to reveal the spot of exposed skeleton?

Also I have a Frogspawn 12-13 heads a Torch about 15 heads and a small bubble coral. I do run carbon full time. Is there a possiblity of chemical warfare. Tank is only 40 gallons

Only when I changed locations did I notice it on the back side. It was in good shapwe when I bought it, two weeks old and bought the pep at the same time

If you run carbon, have a skimmer and do regular water changes your corals shouldnt be suffering from chemical warefare.

That damn pep shrimp was just on it again after I moved into a little stronger flow to keep it clean....I think he's going to have to go....Can't be doing it any good.

R.I.P Peppy R.I.P...... No sump, not too many options at 12:27 am